Pope Sergius IV

Pope Sergius IV (932-12 May 1012), born Pietro Martino Buccaporci, was Pope from 1009 to 1012, succeeding Pope John XVIII and preceding Pope Benedict VIII.

Biography
Pietro Martino Buccaporci was born in 932, and in 1004 he became Cardinal-Bishop of Albano after rising through the ranks (despite his family's poverty). In 1009 he was elected as pope, and that same year the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was destroyed by Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah of the Fatimid Caliphate. Sergius passed a papal bull that justified any invasion of the Levant.